Sanco

Historical marker location:

Robert Lee vicinity, Texas

( from Robert Lee, take SH 208 northwest about 6 miles, then go north on Sanco Loop about 3 miles)

Marker installed: 1966

Sanco (originally located 1 mile east)

On site of prehistoric Indian camps; in area where in 1850's Fort Chadbourne soldiers often skirmished with Indians.

One of the first settlements and second pioneer post office (established 1888) in county.

Named for the Comanche Chief Sanaco, who with Chief Yellow Wolf had regularly camped here. Yellow Wolf, killed in a fight with Lipans, is buried nearby.

In 1907, new site was surveyed; town relocated here on Yellow Wolf Creek. School, post office, store, blacksmith shop moved to this new site, where Methodist church was already located.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1966.

cities and towns Native American

Texas has been a major oil-producing state for over a century. The first big oil discovery in Texas was the Spindletop field near Beaumont in 1901, which set off a massive oil boom that transformed the state's economy and made Texas one of the wealthiest states in the country.